Comments on: Remote Access readers want Butchie instead, pick ‘John From Cincinnati’ for feature-film treatment over ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Sopranos’

By: Tom Moreno

Tom Moreno — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:58:11 +0000

I was an avid watcher of all three showes, but look at it this way. Sopranos would be just another Mafia movie with no real ending. Deadwood would be just another Western with the bad guys getting it in the end. However John would not be just another ET movie. It has a purpose, a message to convey we only need to allow the producers to tell it…

By: sedonacat

sedonacat — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:49:11 +0000

To the author of the above article(name nowhere visible):

I was a HUGE Sopranos fan. HUGE. I have the dvds. I watch it on sliced to smithereens on A&E & HBO’s (unedited) reruns. The last episode and David Chase’s boredum/disdain for the fans, not to mention his own quotes tell us he is not doing a movie or more episodes. Ever. Money was there, he moved on.

I also watched Deadwood but tiresome verbiage wore me out and yet another old west program, however well produced and true to period it was, just ain’t enough to entertain me for 2 hours in a theatre.

I was lead into John From Cincinnati by watching the Sopranos. I was immediately tweaked and glued to the screen from episode 1. It was never well publicized then. Nor now. It was rerun back to back, 2 episodes per night with no adverts or notices of any kind. I was WAITING for that and missed episode 1 & 2 because I only stumbled upon it while surfing channels.

How did that series even get a fair chance? Yes it followed the most popular show but had not at all the same audience. There’s some of us that enjoyed both but give JFC a fair go at it’s own time slot & audience with LOTS OF PROMO.

There’s a large community of JFC Fans and not one of us would miss a minute of any new episodes, we’d rival Rocky Horror in our frequency of viewing AND BUYING TICKETS to a JOHN FROM CINCINNATI FILM.

I WANT MY JFC !!!

By: Trishah

Trishah — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:40:05 +0000

As a JOHN fan who watch all three of the top shows in this poll my only regret is that I could not have voted for both Deadwood and JOHN. I think it’s a shame that HBO canceled both shows before their time and both deserve to be wrapped up. Personally, I would even go as far as to say that HBO should do the Deadwood movies first since they were openly promised and then reneged on.

And, as for the “non-lineal” story lines in JOHN, that was one of the things that made the show for me, trying to figure out where it was going. This lead me to seek out people online whom I could discuss the show with… something I never did for any other show. This lead me to becoming part of a community of people who I count as my friends to this day. The power of community is one of the story lines in JOHN, so in this regard I think the show succeeded.

AND, I can’t stress this enough, IF the show could have had even one more season or a movie then all these loose ends could have been drawn together and I am sure David Milch would have made sense of it all. There simply was not enough time.

Austin Nichols reported in a TV Guide interview this:

TVGuide.com: Do you know things â€“ secrets about John, answers about his past â€“ that we will now never be made privy to?

Nichols: “I know everything. I know everything about John. I actually spoke to David not too long ago and he said, Austin, donâ€™t give up on this thing. I’m still trying to think of a way for the John tale to continue. So it’s still in his mind.”

And it is still on ours. We support HBO allowing Mr. Milch to complete all that he started… Deadwood and JOHN.